Author Robyn Doolittle has been making the media rounds, including an upcoming appearance on The Daily Show this Thursday. But on the day of her book’s debut, Doolittle was in Toronto where the story began for a Ramsay Talk with Twitter Canada’s Kirstine Stewart.

Doolittle was scant on spoilers, but she did divulge some details on what it took to write Crazy Town and the circus that was, and still is, the Ford story. Here are some highlights.

On including the Ford family

The family members of politicians are typically off-limits to reporters since they’re not the ones who chose the limelight. For her book, however, Doolittle does look at the lives of Ford family members, such as the mayor’s wife Renata.

Finding a balance and ensuring the public interest aspect was “one of the hardest parts” of writing the book, said Doolittle.

“This was not about airing their dirty laundry,” she said. “If things in their life shaped his life, I included it.”

When asked by Stewart if she’s remained unbiased throughout her coverage of Ford, Doolittle said she’s been dreading the question as to whether or not she thinks Ford should be mayor. She said she’s been “incredibly fair” but some facts speak for themselves.

“Can you ignore that the guy is the mayor of Toronto and smoking crack and doesn’t seem to be concerned about it?” said Doolittle.

On Toronto Police

An audience member asked why Toronto Police have never arrested Ford, especially in the wake of documents that allege he was seen exchanging mysterious packages with accused drug dealer Alessandro Lisi.

“The Toronto Police are in such a difficult position with this,” she said, adding that we don’t know what was in those packages and the police would be an awkward position indeed if they had turned out to be football rosters rather than drugs.